[358] in Humor
HUMOR: no!andthankyouforplaying!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 14 13:12:21 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 13:02:51 EDT
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 21:54:34 -0600 (MDT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>
From: dave-barry@marble.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Taken from the column `Feedback' in the _New_Scientist_, 11 Dec 1993:
A mouth can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands, as it were.
Recently, Feedback attended a press conference given by Apple to
show off some new multimedia software.
``Here's a great game with the Solar System,'' burbled the
demonstrator about one of the packages. A view of Saturn, with
moons revolving prettily in green around it, appeared on the screen.
``I can click the mouse pointer on one of the planets...'' said the
demonstrator, aiming at one of the moons, ``... and it comes up.''
As indeed did a picture of Dione, one of Saturn's moons. Oh well,
we thought: moons, planets, what's a name between friends?
But the demonstrator hadn't finished. ``Just imagine trying to get
a picture that detailed on a night like tonight,'' he said, airily
waving a hand towards the cloudy sky outside. ``Even with a decent
microscope.''
At which Feedback quailed and turned away. Seeing part of his
audience fading, the demonstrator turned to the rest: ``Anyone
else here interested in seeing a demonstration of astrology?''
